A Taxonomy of Selfies from the Apple WWDC Keynote

The Apple WorldWide Developer Conference is all about showing things off. So when a mass of tech journalists who all own the latest and greatest smartphones gather in one room, the selfies will fly. And fly they did today inside the Moscone West Convention Center, at least during the lead-up to today's keynote presentation.

There were several distinct varieties of selfie taken at WWDC on Monday, but as longtime watchers of the Apple hype machine know, there is a familiar pattern to the snaps. We'll go through them all here, from the boring to the interesting, though all are embarrassing on some level, if only because the lighting inside a dark theater (combined with the camera on a cellphone) does not work well for selfies.